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Interiors: Jasmine Hemsley’s Bromley home is full of upcycled car‑boot treasures

For the model turned wellbeing guru, wellness starts at home

The ‘Hugh Hefner-style’ sofa was bought in an antiques shop in Chiswick. ‘The rug, we ummed and ahhed about, as it was £45 at a car-boot sale — a lot when everything else is 50p,’ Hemsley saysNICK HOPPER

The Sunday Times, January 13 2019, 12:01am

Nice pad, no? Bet you didn’t guess that most of what you see here, in the 1970s Bromley home of Jasmine Hemsley, the model turned wellbeing expert and chef, has been rescued from skips, charity shops, church fairs and car-boot sales. Even the plants have been salvaged, with the really unwell ones being sent to her “green-fingered” mother for some intensive care.

“I can’t bear stuff going in the bin,” Hemsley explains, “so I’ve always hung out at skips and the dump.” One of her favourite things, she says, “is to see how much fun I can have with a tenner at a car-boot sale”. Quite a lot, it appears: the leather armchair in the sitting room cost £2, the coffee table in the study…

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